in reply to Tracking down errors in data from input files.
Two things, first @array=(@array,$number); is more efficiently written as push @array, $number;. The way you wrote it the entire contents of @array are copied each time.
Second see Carp for printing the call stack. At its simplest
use Carp qw(carp); carp "data $variable not valid in mySub\n";
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